At various points over the past four months, acquisitive interest in Spinnin’ is believed to have come from Sony Music Entertainment and Believe Digital – but Warner has, we’re told, emerged as the final suitor.

You can bet that Stu Bergen, Warner’s CEO of International, spearheaded the negotiations which secured the deal.

Over the past five years, Bergen (pictured inset) has led Warner’s deal-making in acquisitions of global music companies such as Gallo Records (South Africa), Gala Records (Russia), Gold Typhoon (China), Polskie Nagrania (Poland), ISS (Indonesia) and X5 (Sweden).

All signs point to this momentum continuing to ramp up with Lousada in the mix – both in the US and beyond.